Richard Schulz, Director of the UniversityCenter
for Social and Urban Research, reported on the status of his multidisciplinary
grant project.Individuals from six
departments and several interdisciplinary centers participate in the project,
which focuses on suffering.Dr. Schulz
discussed problems related to defining, conceptualizing, and measuring
suffering.He and his team developed a
comprehensive measure of suffering that they are using in preliminary studies.He also discussed the implications of this
research.

Report from the Office of Research

Allen DiPalma,
Director of the Office of Research, discussed the transition to the federal
government’s Internet-based, grant-application site, Grants.gov.Proposals that will be submitted via the site must be delivered to the
Office of Research 10 days prior to the submission deadline.During the most recent round of submissions,
faculty members submitted 84 grant applications via the Grants.gov
website.Researchers experienced few
problems.Fifty-two of these proposals
were submitted to the NIH.The NIH now
requires that all R01 proposals be submitted electronically.The NIH will transition to electronic
submission for other types of grants at later dates.

The Office of Research continues
to provide instruction on how to use Grants.gov.Additional information on training sessions
can be found on the Office of Research’s website.